A Whistle Blower With A Strong Moral Compass

During the 1920's, smoking tobacco had been documented as hazardous to peoples health as studies had linked lung cancer patients were more commonly smokers. Since the 1920's various other studies had significant evidence to claim other health risks with pregnant women, children and the affects of second hand smoke on others. After all these studies came the debate on whether smoking should or should not be continued in a workplace.

Food and drug administration is a department of U.S health and human services. It’s responsibility is to test the safety and efficacy of new drugs entering the market as well as to make sure that these medicines are quickly accessible to people. The Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act has been passed in 1938 to ensure that foods other than meat, poultry and fish are clinically hygienic and safe to eat. This act also requires that the food should be labelled according to its content. (FDA.org) Drugs and tobacco are also regulated by FDA and in 1996, FDA strictly regulated the use of tobacco products like nicotine, cigarettes and smokeless tobacco, by children and adolescents because of the increase in diseases prevalence and tobacco addiction. Annually 40000 deaths are attributable to its use and most of them are of premature. Therefore the goal of FDA is to stop the tobacco addiction by minors and prevent the deaths and diseases due to nicotine addiction. (FDA vs Brown, n.d) This essay will cover the food and drug administration’s role in under and over regulating drugs and medicines and how it effects our economy, health care system and patients health and safety.

Naylor’s ethos is shown when he is in the conference with the senator. Naylor understands the audience already knows that smoking is bad for oneself, so he pointed his finger to the real killer in America, and the killer is Cholesterol or rather Virginia Cheese. Naylor understood that the leading cause of death in America is heart disease or heart related problems. Naylor’s stance on this subject is that if you want a warning label on his cigarette, then the senator should have a warning label that says cheese is a killer in America. Naylor shows that cheese is a killer, however has a good connotation about itself. And right after, the senator asked, “Will you give your son his first cigarette?” Naylors replied, “if he wants a cigarette, I would happily buy him one.” Naylor is not an advocate for smoking; Naylor is an advocate for freedom of choice. Naylors idea of smoking is that it’s the duty of parents, teachers, and others to inform children to make choices for themselves, not just because someone's mom says that smoking is bad for you. Naylor shows in this instance of combining both logos and ethos of using science and the emotions of others to influence his audience and win the

In the 20th century, a lot of remarkable discoveries in medicine, which were created by talent doctors and scientists, have greatly affected the lives of people. In order to create important inventions, many scientists just work by themselves in their unique projects. Nevertheless, some of them work in a similar field and even corporate together in scientific experimentation like E. Donnall Thomas and Gertrude B. Elion. Donnall figured out a bone marrow transplantation treatment for human while Elion discovered a new drug to cure AIDS. Interestingly, E. Donnall Thomas and Gertrude B. Elion have several similarities in their education, families and career achievements.

Nick Naylor is the Vice-President of the Academy of Tobacco Studies works under “BR” who is a type of boss that doesn’t care how a task gets done but just that it is completed while making Big Tobacco look good. Naylor is talented in speaking and spins argument to defend the cigarette industry in the most difficult situations. For example, he goes to speak in front of his sons class for career day and gets confronted by a student (who has clearly been taught by her parents that cigarettes are the equivalent of poison) which states “My Mommy says smoking kills…..Naylor: Oh, is your Mommy a doctor?..... No…..Naylor: A scientific researcher of some kind?.... No……Naylor: Well, then she's hardly a credible expert, is she?” In this instance Naylor makes his business appear to be above doctors, scientific research, and all credible experts while avoiding the original statement. This is Nick Naylor’s job. Nick Naylor is a lobbyist.

Introduction This case arose when Jesse Williams died due to lung cancer after smoking three packs of Marlboros every day for 47 years of his life. Jesse Williams was a janitor in Portland, Oregon and he started smoking while he was in the army in the 1950s. Even though, he made several attempts to stop smoking he was unsuccessful each time. In his point of view, he said: “The cigarette companies would not sell them if they were dangerous.” When Williams learned about his inoperable lung cancer, he felt deceived by the cigarette companies.

Reading the essay and trying to understand the method about DNA Myth had thought individuals truthful genetics facts. Understanding what companies bear in their products what would they do when individuals try to sue for negative effects of their products? Many people tries to be successful on quitting tobacco but on the down fall they did not. Finally, is it the companies to hold the responsible for the cigarette or is it the people? This essay will explain the questions and reason why people should be concern about long-term harms.

was 35.1 billion dollars. With a product that kills so many of its customers, your only concern in this industry is to increase sales and make a profit. Definitely in the tobacco industry and most others, it is my opinion that you cannot cater to the best interest of both the company and the consumer. Even a good company with the best intentions will eventually come to a crossroad where choosing what is best for one will not have such a great outcome for the other. Their best interests will ultimately conflict, and you will be forced make a choice between the two.

The movie, “Thank You for Smoking” is a comedy with a tobacco industry lobbyist, Nick Naylor as the lead. The movie has an eerie comic theme which tackles the serious issue of the addicting substance of tobacco, or to be more specific, nicotine. The idea which the movie was trying to portray was that this lobbyist was a great speaker who is able to manipulate many a feeble-mind. A lobbyist, to begin with, is one who is employed to persuade all-concerned of the employer’s concern(s), in this case, the marketing of tobacco products.

Before Wigand had come forward you had people that were whistleblowers for the tobacco industry you had someone who had stolen those secret files that ended up on Bergman doorstep. But Wigand was the Christopher Columbus of the tobacco, he was the biggest person in history to have and still to this present day that has stood up against the tobacco industry. Once Wigand had blown the whistle on B&W other employees didn't come forward or back Wigand up, he talks about in his interview with Vanity Fair, that B&W staff was an incestuous society at parties and dinners they never mixed and they stayed away from each other. People were getting paid well and getting nice benefits packages, people knew what was going on everything was shot down through

On April 15th, 1994, executives representing the seven largest American tobacco manufacturers testified in congress, stating cigarettes were not addictive and that the companies had not tampered with nicotine levels to keep smokers addicted. They did, however, admit that nicotine levels could be altered by changing the concentration of tobacco, stating that this was done to enhance flavour and not to incite addiction (Hilts). Nevertheless, a study conducted from 1997-2005 found that nicotine levels had in fact increased an average of 0.029mg/cig/year over the eight year time span. The researchers concluded the only reasonable explanation for the increase was due to “design modifications” which they attributed had been the work of the tobacco companies (Connolly). Correspondingly, the overall number of deaths related to tobacco usage (from 1997-2005) also rose (“Smoking & Tobacco Use”), due to the increased amount of nicotine exceeding toxic levels (Connolly). The novels Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley and Mystic River, by Denis Lehane both present similar situations in which characters keep silent regarding their personal lives, endangering others to help themselves. Frankenstein explores Victor’s story and motivations on why he keeps silent about his grisly projects creation, it’s subsequent escape and the murder of his family. Mystic River deals with the trauma resulting from the childhood rape of Dave, while his two best friends; Jimmy and Sean look on, and their

In August 1970 a leading tobacco defense attorney, David R. Hardy, wrote a confidential letter warning that indiscreet comments by industry scientists, including references to biologically active components of cigarette smoke and the search for a safer cigarette, constitute a real threat to the continued success in the defense of smoking and health litigation. The actual knowledge on the part of the defendant that smoking is generally dangerous to health, that certain ingredients are dangerous to health and should be removed, or that smoking causes a particular disease. This would not only be evidence that would substantially prove a case against the defendant company for compensatory damages, but could be considered

The use of tobacco is a very controversial topic here in the United States. The harmful side effects of tobacco are well known and consequently, many believe that it should be outlawed. Though this has not yet occurred, constant regulations on the industry and

However our concern here is not only about the cigarette as a product but with the ethics of cigarettes as well, that affect the social process of marketing. This is because marketing process makes things worse and is also considered as unethical, and as a result has a significant negative impact on the societal welfare. Multinational tobacco companies apply sophisticated strategies ( such as putting flavor in the cigarettes and placing cigarettes in the shops near the sweets to make them more appealing) and invest huge amounts of money for marketing, in order to establish brand familiarity and future loyalty among young peoplem, to secure profits in the long run. 'The tobacco epidemic is a man-made international health crisis, created and sustained by multinational tobacco corporations.' (Yach, Brinchmann, Bellet page 2).

Smoking tobacco has been a part of American culture since its very conception. Throughout our history, tobacco has been advertised as a simple pleasure for those who seek it out. Whether you are sitting on the porch with a couple of friends or in a dimly lit jazz club, tobacco ads give off a false sense of comfort, power, and success. Until around the mid-1900’s, smoking cigarettes was not considered unhealthy. It was only later that the public realize the detrimental health consequences that came with smoking tobacco. To spread this information, specific advertisements were aired to help inform the public of the dangers of smoking. While these ads have changed over time, the same message and warning still remains evident.